Word: musketeers
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...seemed a queer ballad for a nun to tackle. But even at its climax-when the landlord's daughter warns her lover of the King's men, by shattering her breast with a musket shot-the Noyes was expertly joined by Sister Martina's warm, robust music...
...there was disappointment, doubt, ill will over his failure. So Whitney went to the White House with a boxful of ten gunstocks, ten barrels, ten triggers, etc., let President John Adams, General William North, Thomas Jefferson, other awed officials choose at random the parts from which a single excellent musket was quickly assembled. It was an unprecedented event in military and industrial history. The Government leniently extended Whitney's contract. His machine shop hummed...
...Spanish boys are left in charge of their farm in the Rio Grande valley and of their mother, who is in labor. The adobe house is cold; they need skins to keep themselves and the new baby warm. Taking their father's musket they ride into the mountains, are separated in a blizzard, learn more of themselves and of each other in danger, return proudly with skins of mountain cats, a wolf, a bear...
...that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion at Blackpool zoo, moving his outraged parents to lament...
...criticism of their pioneering ("a filibustering toward heaven by the great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with. . ."). Radicals and reformers like Alcott thought him anti-social ("God does not approve of the popular movements," said Henry, who believed in reforming oneself first). The good citizens of Concord simply called him a loafer who had thrown away a Harvard education...